MOVE Coach Reviews

The food categories don’t really match the labels on packages for calories. It is also difficult to find specific foods. There is no way to manually enter calories. Also if you enter information you can not edit.

MOVECoach just really crashed in the food category’s.

I just can’t recommend MOVECoach. It is just not reliable

Ok, I tried it for 2 weeks - until I discovered that the Move! App was “charging” me more than double the calories on my carton of almond milk. And entering a recipe is impossible, because MOVECoach assumes that the whole freaking recipe is 1 serving - like, 1,000 calories for a recipe that serves 8. I couldn’t possibly eat the whole thing! It also seems overwhelmingly weighted in favor of fast food, not homemade, fresh food unless you want to enter every single ingredient separately. In single serving portions. Was it a good idea? Absolutely. Too bad the execution didn’t come close to measuring up. The “favorites” function is all but useless. Oh, yeah. I had to download an additional app to track my blood pressure - which, for some of us, is kind of a big deal. You might think that’s not much trouble, but, trust me, it is.

MOVECoach has serious potential upside! Unfortunately it does not function on my phone (15 pro max). Please assign or hire app developers in the IT department. I want to get in shape, and stay in shape, without worsening my disabilities. I will gladly change my review rating when I see noticeable improvements, and I’m not giving up on you!

Very frustrating to use. I have tried numerous times to a Vance through the modules. I enter all my data and respond to the prompts. Get through several of the modules then it crashes! When I restart MOVECoach from Home Screen all my data is gone and requires me to start from beginning. Thought it was just my iPhone but I loaded on iPhone 7 with same results. Won’t try to use it anymore. What a shame.

I just tried using MOVECoach for the first time after downloading it a couple weeks ago. When setting up your information you can’t even see the information that you are trying to select. It took some trial and error to enter my height. Forget entering your age. I couldn’t even see what number I selected because it doesn’t show up on the screen at all.

I wanted to use MOVECoach primarily as a food tracker. But I went to input my meal and couldn’t input simply skinless chicken breast... All options were for breaded. I cooked green beans and chicken with some coconut oil, nothing complicated. MOVECoach should allow custom entries, so I can find the calorie/fat amount on WolframAlpha and just input the data.

Very frustrating in seeing app has not been updated for nearly a year, this explains a lot. Calculations are sporadic and report incorrect results on data retrieved. Weekly diet report is very annoying when trying to report to nutritionist weekly activity. Please update app so it can be used as it has the potential to be.

Great free tool to keep me accountable each day and lose weight. But MOVECoach in iPhone is very difficult to use, as everything is squished on the screen.

There are a couple of foods that I had to figure out how to custom add as well as a couple that I forgot to add from the previous day. MOVECoach would not let me change the date to add from a previous date. This is irritating as I am trying to keep an accurate record of calories and progress. Please fix this.

The program is good and it does help track the calories and activity. However, when trying to add a custom item when it gets to the screen that asks if I want to enter additional information I can’t see anything because the screen to enter numbers is in the way and no way to hide it.

I have been using this program for months but today both diet and activity is gone from MOVECoach , what happened? This is really screwing up my progress please help with this.

I don’t know how to report issues with MOVECoach . I called the number in the help section and they are putting in a ticket. I have an iPhone XR. When I click on Self Assessment Guide Week 2, #2-How to read food labels, MOVECoach just closes. The rest of the section works.

MOVECoach does not allow for entering exactly what I ate. Ex: I had an Arby’s Grand Turkey sandwich, it has bacon but I cannot add it. In addition, the calories allotted were either higher or lesser than what I ate. Having the list available is helpful but I need to be able to customize my diet entry.

Like another user that stated they needed the ability to edit the dates of dietary entries. I too made the mistake of completing my entries after midnight and was unable to change it.

We need the capability to enter data at our convenience and to customize those entries.

I lost 41 lbs. with MOVECoach . It works!

My only suggestion is that the Diet Diary allow one to enter calories for things eaten the day before. Every time you wait till after midnight to enter a late dinner, it will not allow an entry for it.

Just like every other federal government app this one is overbuilt and modified over a foundation of basic missions. I find MOVECoach to be very helpful in losing weight, increasing stamina, balance, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. But! I’ve had to be flexible and adapt my info inputs to the basic app framework. Once I adapted and adjusted my input on the fly, MOVECoach exactly what I wanted it to be.

At this point I confess that I worked as a Chef for 35 years so the dietary section of MOVECoach holds no mystery for me. I was very health conscious in my youth, keeping fit with stretching, and weight training programs that I still adhere to. I played a LOT of beer league softball and still bike my way back and forth to appointments. The physical work and calorie burn rates are no mystery to me either. Using the rest of MOVECoach successfully requires a little ingenuity and a LOT of common sense.

I have completed the majority of the MOVE! Sections and have restarted them twice now. Doing so authorizes my use of VA physical therapy exercise facilities to maintain and improve my physical well being. I turned 70 this year and using MOVECoach may help me make 80+ a healthy possiblity.

So quit complaining, stop seeing everything in black and white, use your intellect with cleverness, and mold MOVECoach to fit your needs and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how helpful and easy it is to use.

Over the last year I have lost 30 lbs and I owe that to MOVECoach. I have struggled with my weight for more than a decade, never being able to drop weight, but when I started using MOVECoach to track calories and my weight I started seeing progress. MOVECoach definitely has its flaws and plenty of room for improvement, but it ended up being the little bit extra I needed to get me shedding weight.

Problems/areas of improvement:
- Search function for meal tracker is not very good. It takes a bit of time to figure out the regional name for some foods and there are also many foods not included. I started finding something close in description, with higher calories, and putting that in the diet log. A QR scanner would be a nice improvement to remedy this.
- Activity tracker was not very useful for me. I ended up using the iPhone app instead. This may be because I was already familiar with that app.

I have found MOVECoach extremely helpful and user friendly! I have used it over the past 1 1/2 with my weight loss journey towards my Gastric Sleeve surgery. Thank you VA for creating such a great tool for us Veterans!

My weight data reset after 6 months. Is there a way to retrieve all of my information? I liked monitoring and sharing my graph progress. Now it starts over at my more current weight.

I set a goal to lose 20 lbs and ended up losing 25. Feel much better after this program blood sugar is u see better control and feel good getting out and moving.

Move has helped me stay motivated during the past 4 months. I’ve had some setbacks, but move helped me power through them.